<OT> Re: we shall remember them

[dep]

begin  Ken Moffat's  quote:

| - Why are Turkey and Kuwait, 2 strong US allies, firmly in favor of
| further diplomacy and inspections, not bombing and invasion?

several reasons. in kuwait's case, because it is not especially 
interested in having happen to it the things it believes iraq can do; 
because it is still very concerned over gulf war pows which it 
believes iraq still holds; and because the beards have moved into 
positions of greater influence in kuwait, though they're not quite 
yet in the control they have in saudia. in turkey's case, there is 
concern over the things iraq can launch -- though turkey is scarcely 
"firmly" anything here. and the choices are scarcely as you 
characterize them.

| - Why is Britain our only U.N. security council supporter?

as opposed to france, which does not want to miss an opportunity to 
surrender, russia, which wants the $8 billion iraq owes it, and 
china, which sees geopolitical advantage in iraq growing stronger and 
targeting us? why, indeed.

| - Who is starting the trouble in Iraq? ...and why?

what trouble in iraq? you mean its attempt to overrun iran in the 
1980s? its invasion of kuwait? its genocide against the kurds? its 
attempts to create weapons such that it can seize control of the 
region? is that the trouble of which you speak? if so, it isn't being 
started, it's well underway, and it is the work of the regime there.

| Many haven't been convinced yet, and don't trust the motives of
| this administration.

i see, though it puzzles me, because one has to embrace some pretty 
fragrant conspiracy theories to suspect motives other than the 
obvious one, which is that iraq is as close to a governmental aegis 
as al qaeda has, and in case you missed it al qaeda attacked the u.s. 
last year, attached a french supertanker a couple of weeks ago, 
almost certainly is behind the bali bombing and the bombings in the 
philippines, and is increasingly a suspect in the shootings around 
d.c.; on its own account iraq has made little secret of its plan to 
dominate the middle east. it is difficult to imagine a motive that 
overpowers this one. yet there are those who think that there is some 
other reason behind it, even as there are those who still hold the 
view that the purpose of world war II was to raise the u.s. out of 
the depression. which it did, but one is hard pressed to demonstrate 
that the depression was the motivating factor.

| Bush just seems too arrogant toward the rest of the world.

in what sense?
-- 
dep

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